Secret Heir
Dynasty Trilogy, Book 1
by M.J. Prince
Publication Date: February 27, 2018
Genres: A Forbidden Love, Enemies to Lovers, Royal Romance
Rating: 4 Stars
Told in the first person.
Told in the first person.
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Running parallel alongside Earth, but never touching, there exists not just a garden, but an entire world of vivid colours and breathtaking beauty where the Seraph reside.
Jazmine has lived in ten different foster homes, in ten different towns and all her life she has felt like she doesn't belong - not in the trailer park which happens to be foster home number ten, not anywhere on Earth. After a universe shattering revelation, she discovers why. Far from being the nothing and no one, with no past and no future, that Jazmine had always believed herself to be, she discovers that she is in fact an heir to one of the seven remaining Seraph Dynasties.
She is Jazmine Evenstar, the last heir to the sovereign Evenstar Dynasty.
Thrust into the world of wealth and privilege in which the impossibly beautiful and equally cruel Dynasty heirs reside, Jazmine is forced to manoeuvre the tangled web that holds the Dynasties together. Against the backdrop of breathtaking star filled nights, sweeping coastlines, grand marble halls and decadent palaces, Jazmine tries to find her place in this beautiful new world whilst fighting not to lose herself in the process.
But the fairy tale quickly unravels.
Half human and the illegitimate daughter of the late suicide King of Eden, the other Dynasty heirs make it clear that Jazmine does not belong in their world.
Raphael St. Tristan, heir to the rival sovereign St. Tristan Dynasty and next in line to the throne of Eden, the guy with the face of an angel but who is as wicked as the devil himself, promises to break her.
Jazmine quickly learns that the beauty of Eden is nothing but a deception as she uncovers the secrets festering at the heart of it. But can she disentangle herself from the web of deception and intrigue that the Dynasty heirs have spun? Can she stop herself from falling into Raphael St. Tristan's trap before he can fulfil his promise to shatter her completely? Or are those stories about Eden true after all and will she be foolish enough to taste the forbidden fruit that is Eden itself?
SECRET HEIR is the first book in the all new DYNASTY trilogy. A loose adaption of Romeo and Juliet but with a fantastical twist, this saga of feuding Dynasties, forbidden love, betrayal, royal scandals and power struggles for the crown promises to ensnare, captivate and shatter then leave readers clawing for more.
Welcome to Eden…
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My Thoughts:
Jazmine Woodson Evenstar constantly moves around but not by
choice. I did have an issue though. Given her supposed age and where she lives,
I’m very surprised as to her job. I get
it’s her choice but I’m just wondering about the adults. My surprise continues right into chapter
two. What I’m really glad about is that
this is a work of fiction.
It just makes me sad that she feels as she does about herself and
that there doesn’t seem to be someone willing to take a chance on her. It seems as if the system failed her as well
and I can only hope that in our current world that our system isn’t as bad.
I was willing to give up on this book because I didn’t like the
tone this book started with but I’m glad that I stuck it out. I’m not sure how kids will feel about reading
this story when the beginning may seem as if people in their life have let them
down. Another good reason that I kept on
reading would be because of the interesting twist that the author adds in.
Our author also creates a character named Magnus. As I see how he interacts with Jazmine I
think of my grandfather. Magnus wasn’t
someone that I could picture putting an actor in his spot especially as my
grandfather seemed to want that position.
I don’t watch a lot of the new programs out there but if this were going
to be on the air I can see it going up against The Others or The
Shadowhunters.
There’s a lot going on here but I think some of that is due to the
fact that the author is setting us up for the rest of the trilogy. When you have something that doesn’t exist,
there tends to be a lot that has to be created especially if you’re going to
continue the world in the next book.
I’ll be interested to see where this is going.
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About M.J. Prince:
New Adult and Young Adult author, sometimes artist, sometimes lawyer, often a dreamer and a hopeless romantic but a die hard bookworm at all times.
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